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The Sibylline Oracles - With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books (Hardcover)
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The Sibylline Oracles - With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books (Hardcover)
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In this book, J. L. Lightfoot throws a bridge between two mutually
ignorant areas: pagan oracles and Judaeo-Christian studies. The
Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity who was
credited with verse prophecies, often of an apocalyptic character.
Lightfoot describes how she was taken over by Jews in the
Hellenistic period, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their
own understandings of prophecy. She explores what those
understandings were, and describes how the message was then clothed
in the very distinctive and mannered pagan idiom that was the
hallmark of Sibylline prophecy. The volume contains an edition,
translation, and commentary on the undeservedly neglected first and
second books of extant oracles. The commentary illustrates some of
the ways in which biblical scriptures were represented and recast
in an oracular idiom, and pays particular attention to the oracle's
most noteworthy feature, its extraordinarily rich description of
the Day of Judgement.
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